I found this great little tip on one of the web designer newsletters I get, kind of like the one I am sending out now...

Use Your Google Alerts!

What for? Well, this goes back to my tidbit last month where you need get a bunch of inbound links to your website to get a higher ranking in google. Finding quality places to add your website address is tedious and time consuming, so why not put it on auto pilot using your google alerts? The alerts function goes out and searches for content on the web that you are interested in and delivers it to your email box. Why not use some of the keywords of your website content that help your clientelle find you, in the alerts?. For example, as a web and graphic designer, I added "custom web and graphic design" to my alerts, "holistic web design" and "holistic graphic design".

I tried this last week, and added myself to a few new directories that were targeted to the market I like to focus on. I will admit that I went a bit overboard and had the alerts set to arrive whenever something was found, and was annoyingly bombarded by alerts every minute or two. So, I went back and set it to once a week. At this point, I can check out what websites were found and do a bit of marketing for myself by adding my website link to the sites that google alerts found. Pretty cool huh?

Get yourself a gmail account and set yourself up on the alerts...

Google Alerts